They've been given just one week to find a killer they'd caught once before ...Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the trail of an enigma: a young man called Mr Fox. But his identity is false, his links to society are invisible and his home yields no clues. All they know is that somehow he escaped from a locked room and murdered one of their best and brightest. Now the detectives are being lured down into the darkest recesses of the London Underground where their quarry, expertly disguised, has struck again.
The third installment of Dodd's Victorian-set Governess Brides series (Rules of Surrender, Rules of Engagement) sputters off to a slow start as a jilted husband and his runaway bride rehash old grudges. Hannah Setterington, head of the Distinguished Academy of Governesses, is lured to Lord Raeburn's Lancashire castle with promises of a position on the lord's staff only to find that Raeburn is really Dougald Pippard, the commoner she married when she was only 18 years old.
Oh, I married a wife - she's the plague of my life - and I wish I were single again!! So thought confidence trickster Herbert Bennett when he put on a false moustache, lured his confederate wife to Yarmouth sands, and strangled her...
Oh, I married a wife - she's the plague of my life - and I wish I were single again!! So thought confidence trickster Herbert Bennett when he put on a false moustache, lured his confederate wife to Yarmouth sands, and strangled her...
